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Wednesday,  JunQ  9,    1909 


On  this  day  the  2ist  annual 
meeting  of  the  Association  of  the 
"New  Jersey  Training  School  for 
Feeble-minded  Girls  and  Boys"  is 
held. 
y  During  these  years  the  school 
has  grown  from  a  little  home  school 
with  eight  pupils  and  holding  cer- 
tain rights  to  40  acres  of  land,  to  a 
large  public  charity,  caring  for 
nearly  400  children,  and  owning 
250  acres  of  well  culivated  farm 
lands,  fruit  and  vegetable  gardens, 
lawns,  etc.,  upon  which  are  situ- 
ated on  tree-lined  avenues,  ten 
residence  cottages. 

These  are  on  either  side  of  a 
hollow  square,  in  the  centre  of 
which  are  the  Power  House,  Laun- 
dry, Industrial  Building,  Labora- 
tory, and  Garrison  Hall,  the  centre 
of  the  educational  work.  To  the 
southeast  of  the  square  is  the  Hos- 
pital, and  toward  the  southwest, 
the  shops  and  barns. 
^  The  members  of  the  Association 
and  the  Directors  and  Oificers  of 
the  School  welcome  on  this  day  all 
who  are  interested  in  the  work  that 
is  being  done.  There  is  much  to 
be  seen  and  for  that  reason,  we 
give  the  following  outline  of  the 
work  to  be  seen,  the  plan  of  the 
Institution,  etc.,  etc. 

Program. 

Upon  arrival  visitors  register  on 
the  special  cards  furnished  for  that 
purpose.  At  10.30  a.m.,  the  an- 
nual business  meeting  of  the  Asso- 
ciation is  held  in  the   auditorijjm  of 


Garrison  Hall.  Friends  of  the  In- 
stitution, as  well  as  members  of 
the  Association,  are  welcome  at 
this  meeting.  At  this  time  the 
various  reports  of  the  work  done 
are  presented  to  the  Association. 
These  iuclude  the  report  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  the  Board  of 
Lady  Visitors,  the  Treasurer,  the 
Superintendent,  and  the  various 
committees.  There  are  also  reports 
of  some  of  the  departments  of  the 
School,  which  are  presented  as  part 
of  the  Superintendent's  report. 
After  the  reading  of  the  reports  is 
held  the  election  of  four  directors 
and  four  lady  visitors,  and  any 
other  business  that  may  come  be- 
fore the  Association. 

Annual  dues  may  he  paid  to  the 
Clerk,  who  will  he  found  at  the  office 
in  [Maxham  Cottage. 

2.15 — Entertainment  by  the   Chil- 
dren. 
A  Japanese  Party. 
Sextette — 

From  Lucia. 
The  Substitute  Minstrels. 
Quartette — 

Rigoletto. 
Fancy  Marching  Drill. 
Chorus — 

"Unfold  Ye  Portals  Everlasting." 

On  the  second  floor  of  the  Hall, 
is  the  exhibition  of  the  work  of  the 
School  Department.  This  work  is 
all  so  arranged  and  marked  that 
visitors  may  see,  not  only  the  pro- 
gress certain  of  the  children  have 
made,  but  the  general  line  of  work 


carried  on  by  different  grades  of 
children.  We  aim  to  make  tiiis 
exhibit  valuable  scientifically  as 
well  as  interesting  and  pretty. 
Some  of  our  teachers  are  always  in 
the  exhibit  room  on  Annual  Day 
and  will  be  glad  to  answer  any 
questions  about  the  work. 

Location. 

In  visiting  the  buildings  and 
grounds,  it  is  found  more  con- 
venient to  see  them  in  groups.  All 
are  welcome  to  all  parts  of  the  hi- 
stitution  without  a  guide  on  this 
day. 

The  Training  School  is  in  Landis 
Township,  Cumberland  County, 
about  a  mile  from  the  borough  of 
Vineland.  From  the  corner  of 
Main  and  Landis  Avenue,  the 
School  line  runs  nearly  south  across 
Chestnut  and  Washington  Avenues 
and  nearly  east  on  Landis  about 
3000  feet.  We  also  have  about  20 
"acres  of  land,  four  miles  west  of  us 
where  the  children  go  camping  each 
year.  On  this  land  there  are  a 
number  of  shacks — kitchen,  dining- 
room,  pavilions,  etc.  made  of  rough 
lumber.  There  is  a  running  stream 
and  plenty  of  shade.  Here  the 
children  go  in  groups  of  thirty,  and 
each  group  spends  a  week  of  the 
summer  time.  There  is  a  splendid 
grove  of  laurel  in  the  woods,  and 
•plenty  of  huckle-berries. 

Out  Of  Doors. 

The  grounds  divide  naturally  into 
farm  lands,  truck  gardens,  lawns, 
groves,  and  play  fields.  The  farm 
lands  are  well  worth  your  inspec- 
tion. Careful  scientific  work  from 
year  to  year  has  brought  our  soil 
up  to  a  high  degree  of  productivity, 
and  careful  experimentation  has 
shown  us  how  to  use  the  land  we 
have  to  the  best  advantage.  We 
have  done  careful  work  in  corn 
breeding,  alfalfa  growing,  spraying 
potatoes,  and  forcing  additional 
growth  by  the  use  of  certain    ferti- 


lizers. Whenever  the  opportunity 
appears,  we  have  taken  advantage 
of  the  latest  findings  in  science  and 
the  most  progressive  work  by  the 
agricultural  stations  of  the  country. 
The  experimental  work  in  grapes 
under  the  U.  S.  Department  is 
south  of  the  barns  and  the  experi- 
mental orchard  in  peaches  under 
the  State  Station  is  east  of  the 
Hospital.  Our  farm  library  re- 
ceives all  of  the  bulletins  published 
by  the  various  stations  of  the  coun- 
try. Our  last  years  crops  were 
better  than  ever  before.  Some  idea 
of  the  amount  we  need  to  raise  for 
our  own  consumption  may  be  ob- 
tained from  the  following  figures 
which  represent  only  the  more  im- 
portant things  raised  in  1908: — 
5000  heads  cabbage,  4000  heads 
lettuce,  1500  baskets  sweet  pota- 
toes, 1200  bushels  white  potatoes, 
1300  bunches  rhubarb,  1200 
bunches  scullions,  350  dozen  green 
corn,  400  bushel  field  corn,  200 
quarts  raspberries,  800  quarts 
blackberrries,  2000  quarts  straw- 
berries, I  ton  grapes,  600  baskets 
peas,  500  watermelons,  6000  lbs. 
pork,  146,000  quarts  milk. 

You  will  notice  that  our  lawns 
contain  no  "Keep  off  the  Grass'* 
signs.  Our  beautiful  tree-lined 
drives  are  much  used  in  taking 
walks,  and  the  children  are  free  to 
revel  in  green  grass,  shady  groves, 
etc.  to  their  hearts  content. 
Swings,  hammocks,  etc.  give  to  the 
children  the  same  degree  of 
pleasure  that  the  great  flocks  of 
birds  and  the  squirrels  enjoy  in  the 
trees  above. 

\  At  the  Play  Corner,  which  is 
situated  just  west  of  Robison 
'Cottage,^  is  the  band  stand,  the  ball 
field,  merry-go-round,  zoo,  etc. 
Our  Zoo  is  a  source  of  intense  in- 
terest to  the  children.  Thru  the 
kindness  of  friends  and  particularly 
of  the  Board  of  Lady  Visitors,  we 
have  quite  a  collection    of   animals 


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and  birds.  Be  sure  to  seethe  little 
wolf  house,  south  of  the  main 
building,  and  our  beautiful  deer 
southwest  of  the  wolf  house. 

About  1000  feet  southeast  of  the 
buildings  is  a  bright,  beautiful  and 
sunny  spot.  This  is  our  cemetery, 
"God's  Acre."  Here  are  lovingly 
cared  for  the  graves  of  those  of  our 
children  whose  friends  and  rela- 
tives have  felt  that  they  should 
rest  here  on  our  grounds,  for  here 
was  their  real  home.  On  many 
occasions,  our  children  visit  the 
cemetery,  particularly  on  Decora- 
tion Day,  when  they  carry  flowers 
and  wreaths  to  refresh  their  mem- 
ories of  those  who  had  been  their 
companions. 

The  North  Cottages. 

Our  Institution  is  built  on  the 
cottage  plan,  each  building  contain- 
ing a  group  of  children  who  most 
nearly  classify  mentally.  In  this 
way,  we  are  able  to  place  those 
children  most  helpful  to  each  other, 
together.  For  the  sake  of  economy, 
several  groups  eat  in  the  same 
dining-room,  but  the  children  of 
lower  grade  have  dining-rooms  for 
themselves.  While  the  cottage 
system  prevails,  the  buildings  are 
close  enough  together  so  that  light, 
heat,  and  water  are  furnished  from 
the  central  plant. 

The  north  group  of  cottages  con- 
sists of  four  gray  brick  buildings, 
and  two  home-like  frame  ones,\  all 
facing  on  Landis  Avenue,  the  pub- 
lic highway.)  They  are  however 
separated  from  it  by  a  wide  extent 
of  tree  covered  lawns,  with  hedges, 
flower  beds,  and  a  pretty  fountain 
in  the  centre.  The  first  building 
as  you  enter  the  grounds  is  the 
home  of  the  Superintendent.  This 
was  built  three  or  four   years    ago. 

The  second  (containing  the 
tower),  was  presented  in  1896  by 
the  late  Rev.  R.  B.  Moore,  D.  D., 
who  was  for  many  years  one  of  our 


directors.  In  this  cottage  are  cared 
for  27  of  the  smaller  boys,  of  a 
good  grade  of  intelligence.  The 
homelike  air  which  prevails  is  most 
beneficial  to  this  type  of  child. 

The  next  building  is  the  Wilbur 
Cottage,  the  home  of  5 1  girls.  This 
was  an  old  residence  building, 
which  was  remodeled  and  veneered, 
and  moved  back  in  line  with  the 
present  buildings.  It  has  been  the 
scene  of  many  pleasant  times,  and 
gives  much  comfort  and  happiness 
to  the  girls  who  live  there.  The 
dining-rooms  for  most  of  the  chil- 
dren of  the  north  group  are  situated 
in  this  building. 

Next  is  the  Maxham  cottage, 
which  accommodates  not  only  35 
of  the  girls,  but  many  of  the  offi- 
cers, teachers,  and  other  employes 
of  the  School.  (This  was  the  gift  of 
Mr.  B.  D.  Maxham,  who  had 
watched  the  Institution  grow  from 
its  beginning.  Mr.  Maxham  gave 
the  original  Maxham  Cottage, 
which  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  the 
early  history  of  the  School.  He 
also  gave  the  first  forty  acres  of 
land.  Upon  his  death,  he  left  the 
Institution  sufficient  money  to  pay 
for  the  building  of  Maxham  Cot- 
tage, erect  the  Power  House,  and  a 
good  sum  for  the  establishment  of 
our  Endowment  Fund.  \  In  the 
Maxham  Cottage  are  the  offices 
and  reception  rooms  of  the  School. 
Here  the  records  of  all  kinds  are 
kept. 

Between  Maxham  and  Wilbur 
and  Moore  and  Wilbur,  there  are 
some  very  pretty  flower  beds. 
These  were  given,  and  have  been 
carefully  watched  by  Mr.  David- 
son, our  treasurer,  who  sees  that 
each  year  they  are  kept  full  of 
pretty  and  attractive  flowers. 

Far  to  the  east  of  Maxham  Cot- 
tage, are  two  little  frame  buildings, 
cozy  and  comfortable.  In  the  first, 
Seguin  Cottage,  are  20  girls  who 
require    special   attention.      Their 


meals  are  served  there,  and  much 
of  their  time  is  spent  in  walking 
near  the  building,  or  seated  in  the 
beautiful  grove  of  massive  oak 
trees  near  their  cottage.  Last  of 
the  group  to  the  east  is  Kellar  Cot- 
toge,  which  is  being  fitted  up  for 
boys. 

The  Central  Group. 

The  most  important  building  of 
the  central  group,  and  perhaps  of 
all  the  buildings,  is  Garrison  Hall. 
Here  are  the  school  rooms.  This 
building  should  be  carefully  visited, 
as  there  is  here  brought  together 
more  of  the  work  of  the  Institution 
than  will  be  found  at  any  other 
point. 

On  the  upper  floor  are  the  class 
rooms  for  wood  working,  basketry, 
reading  and  language,  and  the 
band.  The  large  room  is  used  for 
kindergarten  and  physical  training 
work,  as  well  as  for  our  monthly 
birthday  parties  and  fancy  drills, 
also  Wednesday  afternoon  enter- 
tainments. It  is  here  that  the 
children's  work  is  exhibited. 

On  the  first  floor  are  the  Princi- 
pal's office  and  the  school  rooms 
for  nature  study,  number  work  and 
sewing.  The  Auditorium  and  stage 
occupy  the  rest  of  the  space  of  this 
floor,  and  here  the  entertainment  is 
given  on  Annual  Day  at  2.30.  We 
have  about  4000  square  feet  of 
scenery,  and  are  able  to  give  en- 
tertainments of  quite  a  high  class. 
Such  work  is  very  important  in 
our  training  and  all  of  the  enter- 
tainments of  the  year  are  given  by 
the  children.  During  the  winter 
months,  there  are  entertainments 
once  a  week,  to  which  all  of  the 
children  who  can  understand  and 
who  are  well  behaved  are  admitted. 

Here  too  we  give  our  great 
Christmas  entertainments.  All 
around  the  walls  of  the  Auditorium 
are  the  hooks  where  the  children's 
stockings   are    hung.       Christmas 


eve  Santa  Claus  visits  us  here, 
and  receives  quite  an  ovation,  and 
a  few  days  after  Christmas  some 
such  entertainment  as  "The  Pay 
of  the  Pied  Piper,"  "Aladdin  and 
the  Wonderful  Lamp,"  "The  Old 
Homestead,"  or  "The  Comedy  of 
Toys"  is  given. 

The  basement  of  Garrison  Hall 
is  our  gymnasium  thruoutthe  year. 
(We  hope  that  some  day  some  one  ■ 
will  give  us  money  enough  to  buildjf 
a  suitable  and  thorolyj  equipped 
gymnasium^  with  special  apparatus 
for  developing  these  children  along 
the  particiUar  lines,  where  they  are 
weakest.  (^However,  we  are  doing 
the  best  that  we  can  with  what  we 
have.  On  Annual  Day,  the  ap- 
paratus is  cleared  away  and 
luncheon  is  served  in  this  room  to 
the  members  of  the  Association.] 

The  school  children's  gardens 
are  on  the  north  and  south  sides  of 
the  Hall.  On  the  south  side  are 
the  flower  gardens.  This  was  or- 
iginally a  rough  piece  of  ground, 
which  the  school  children  have 
transformed  into  a  beautiful  garden. 
It  is  now  a  series  of  flower  beds, 
and  at  the  children's  request,  we 
have  put  a  fountain  there.  North 
of  the  Hall  are  the  present  gardens. 
Two  years  ago  this  was  a  rough 
straggley  piece  of  land  with  a 
roadway  across  it.  It  has  now 
become  a  place  of  usefulness,  and 
eventually  will  probably  be  turned 
into  lawns  and  flower  gardens. 
^  West  of  Garrison  Hall  is  the  In- 
dustrial Building,  on  the  first  floor 
of  which  are  the  store  rooms  for 
groceries,  meats,  and  dry  goods,  as 
well  as  the  cannery.  These  store 
rooms  remind  one  very  much  of  a 
country  store,  for  here  will  be 
found  everything  that  is  needed  to 
supply  a  little  village.  Careful 
record  is  kept  of  everything  that  is 
received  and  of  everything  issued, 
and  these  must  check  as  carefully 
as  they  would  in  a  business   man's 


store.  The  cannery  puts  up  from 
one  to  three  thousand  gallons  of 
fruit  and  vegetables  each  year,  de- 
pending upon  the  quantity  we  are 
able  to  raise  in  our  gardens.  The 
children  are  very  fond  of  working 
in  this  department,  and  even  the 
kindergarten  children  are  helpful 
in  the  preparation  of  things  for  can- 
ning, and  consider  it  a  great  privi- 
lege to  be  allowed  to  assist. 

On  the  second  floor  of  this  build- 
ing are  found  the  tailor  shop,  broom 
shop,  school  rooms  for  manual 
training  and  domestic  science  and 
the  Laboratory  rooms.  The  work 
in  our  domestic  science  department 
is  new  this  year,  but  the  progress 
the  children  are  making  is  most 
satisfactory. 

The  Laboratory  is  now  quite  well 
equipped  with  instruments  for  test- 
ing and  examining  the  children. 
The  work  of  examination  has  been 
so  perfected  that  we  can  frequently 
find  in  a  very  few  hours  what  it 
used  to  take  us  months  to  discover. 
We  have  a  dark  room  and  a  com- 
plete photographic  outfit  which 
adds  to  the  effectiveness  of  this  de- 
partment. Careful  studies  of  every 
child  have  been  made,  and  the 
value  of  this  work  is  being  recog- 
nized thruout  the  country.  We 
need  very  much  a  separate  building 
for  this  work,  as  the  noises  and 
disturbances  detract  from  the  value 
of  the  examinations. 

South  of  the  Industrial  Building  is 
the  Laundry.  Between  seven  and 
eight  thousand  pieces  go  thru  here 
every  week.  The  most  improved 
machinery  is  in  use  with  all  safe 
guards  to  prevent  accident.  On 
this  same  floor  is  the  electrical  de- 
partment, from  which  we  have  run 
lines  to  all  of  the  principal  buildings, 
street  lights,  etc.  This  will  soon 
be  connected  on  a  switch  board. 

On  the  second  floor  are  the  dress- 
making, mending,  and  ironing 
rooms.     These  should  be  visited. 


East  of  the  Laundry  is  the  Power 
House.  Here  we  have  installed 
two  250  horse-power  Berry  boilers, 
and  one  150  horse-power  Babcock 
and  Wilcox  boiler.  The  well 
pumps  are  situated  in  this  building, 
and  all  power,  heat,  water,  etc. 
comes  from  this  centre. 
The  South  Group. 

The  most  imposing  of  the  south 
group  of  cottages  are  the  buff  brick 
buildings,  Cattell  and  Robison. 
These  accommodate  in  the  one,  the 
large  middle  grade  boys,  and  in  the 
other,  the  higher  grade  boys.  The 
larger  of  the  two,  the  Robison 
Cottage,  had  a  spacious  addition 
built  to  it  a  year  ago.  This  build- 
ing should  be  visited  from  basement 
to  upper  floor,  as  here  we  have 
taken  advantage  of  the  latest  know- 
ledge in  the  construction  of  Institu- 
tion buildings  of  large  size.  No 
where  else  on  the  grounds  have  we 
such  perfect  sanitary  arrangements, 
and  with  the  increased  dining-room 
facilities,  we  are  able  to  have  bright 
rooms  and  small  tables. 

About  the  time  that  the  Robison 
Cottage  was  contemplated.  Miss 
Jane  S.  Robison  of  Rhode  Island, 
gave  most  of  the  money  necessary 
to  build  it,  making  us  residuary 
legatee,  in  her  will.  By  a  strange 
coincidence,  just  at  the  time  the 
Board  of  Directors  had  authorized 
the  building  of  an  addition  to  this 
cottage,  we  received  word  from 
California  that  under  the  terms  of 
a  will  there.  Miss  Robison  was  an 
heir  and  we,  as  residuary  legatee, 
received  a  sum  of  money  sufficient 
to  pay  at  least  part  of  the  expense 
of  the  addition. 

Southeast  of  these  cottages  is  the 
Josiah  Wistar  Hospital,  a  nicely 
equipped  pretty  building  with  many 
modern  facilities  for  the  proper 
treatment  of  sickness.  Across  the 
wide  play  field  toward  the  west  are 
found  Itard  and  H.  C.  buildings. 
These  contain   groups  of  children 


who  require  very  special  attention 
and  care.  It  would  be  nice  if  we 
could  have  the  groups  in  the  larger 
building  even  smaller  than  they  are, 
for  these  children  are  much  like 
babies,  needing  constant  watchful- 
ness. 

Still  farther  to  the  west  facing 
the  public  highway  is  a  cottage  for 
large  boys  who  are  especially  trust- 
worthy. These  boys  are  engaged 
in  the  farm  and  dairy  work,  and 
particularly  enjoy  the  beautiful 
grove  around  their  cottage  in  the 
evenings  and  on  Sundays. 

The  Outer  Buildings. 

It  is  well  worth  while  to  take  the 
extra  walk  that  leads  to  the  outer 
buildings  to  the  south.  The  dairy 
barn  farthest  west  contains  many 
interesting  and  instructive  things. 
Adjoining  it  are  the  silos,  wherein 
we  put  about  200  tons  of  green  feed 
each  year.  The  names  of  the 
cattle  that  give  us  the  most  milk 
during  the  year  are  posted  before 
them  with  the  amount  given.    One 


cow  has  a  record  of  104  pounds  a 
day,  another  102  pounds,  and  an- 
other one  loi  1-2.  There  is  a  cow 
who  has  given  over  16,500  pounds 
in  a  year,  others  that  have  given 
over  10,000  pounds  (a  quart  of 
milk  weighs  about  two  pounds). 
We  are  very  careful  in  the  bring- 
ing up  of  our  young  stock,  and  are 
inoculating  all  of  our  calves  in  the 
hope  of  immunizing  them  from 
tuberculosis. 

South  of  the  dairy  are  the  hog 
pens,  which  we  try  to  keep  always 
as  clean  as  a  house.  There  are 
about  100  head  of  hogs  that  will  be 
ready  for  killing  next  fall.  The 
horse  stable,  the  zoo  buildings  with 
the  animals,  the  green  houses,  and 
the  shops  are  open  for  your  visita- 
tion. Much  of  the  training  consists 
in  the  daily  atmosphere  of  neatness 
maintained  in  and  around  all  of 
these  buildings,  and  tidiness  and 
cleanliness  on  the  part  of  our  pupils 
is  only  possible  by  insisting  upon  it 
from  day  to  day. 


The 
New  Jersey  Training  School 

is  NOT  a  State  Institution  but  a  Public  Chariti^  and  is 
therefore  dependent  upon  the  good-will  and  help  of  those 
who  see  the  need  and  advantage  of  this  sort  of  work. 

You  can  help  us  to  greater  good  and  to  enlarge    our 
present  activities. 


You   Will  Find  Here 

380  Backward  and  Feeble-minded  Children. 

-^A     Department    of   Research   investigating   the 
cause,  results  and  prevention  of  this  condition. 

A    Training    Department  where   even;    effort  is 
made   to    bring  out  the  best  in  these  children. 

Accommodations  and  modern  facilities    to    give 
the  children  the  best  of  care  and  comfort. 

A  well-equipped  Laboratory  for   their  studi;  and 
examination. 

A  Hospital  and  nurses  to  give  preventive  treat- 
ment as  well  as  cure  when  the^  are  sick. 

A  Summer  School  for  Public  School    Teachers 
of  Special  Classes. 


Do  ^ou  know  a  child  who  needs  our  care? 
Will   You  Help? 


Address  E.  R.  JOHNSTONE,  Vine  land,  N  J. 


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